Keynote network provides cloud service monitoring solutions

Since 2006, when Google first proposed the concept of "cloud computing", the major IT companies at home and abroad to participate in the various companies based on their own technology and products to launch their own cloud computing platform to provide a variety of cloud computing services. Over the past six years, cloud computing services have been accepted and adopted by more and more enterprises, and individual consumers are increasingly enjoying the fast and convenient of cloud computing.

The biggest benefit of cloud computing services to businesses and end consumers is that users do not have to spend much effort on infrastructure and technology architectures that they are not good at, so they can focus more on their core competencies in business and things. For enterprises, the use of cloud services, in addition to using a better hardware and software infrastructure, can also save time and resources to use, reduce costs.

How to choose a more cost-effective and more suitable cloud service for many cloud service providers is a concern for every user. As a way of paying by usage, the price of cloud service and the way of payment are the most important factors for users to consider. In terms of usage, users are more concerned with the security, availability, and performance of cloud services. These three are also the biggest challenges for cloud service providers and their users, according to IDC's statistical report.

Cloud service Providers use virtualization technology in large numbers, often sharing network and server resources among different users, while the underlying infrastructure details of cloud service providers are invisible to all cloud service customers, including CPU, memory, storage, and network topologies. As a result, it is difficult for users to accurately assess the performance and availability of cloud server vendors before purchasing cloud services, and it is difficult to monitor and predict the performance changes of cloud services after the cloud service is started, and it is difficult to make appropriate deployment adjustments to ensure that critical business performance and availability are not affected.

How can you more accurately assess the quality of service and performance differences among cloud service providers? How can you continue to optimize and adapt to your cloud services? The keynote network provides a cloud service monitoring tool based on distributed monitoring platform. A series of cloud service monitoring and benchmarking systems using the keynote network can provide objective, accurate and impartial third-party performance comparative analysis reports and optimization recommendations for cloud service vendors and users of cloud services.

The keynote network tests and evaluates the performance and availability of cloud services in multiple ways and provides optimized solutions.

I. Network monitoring

network resources are the foundation of all cloud services, and the bandwidth and latency of the network largely determine the overall performance and availability of each cloud service. Keynote network in more than 50 countries in the country and the global monitoring points can be real-time to the cloud service providers of the computer room and server network latency, packet loss rate, route hops, TCP and network bandwidth and other network monitoring, to help users understand the health of the Cloud service network. Depending on the type of cloud service and the user base of its services, we often recommend that users choose a cloud service provider with high bandwidth and low latency and low packet loss rates to their own room and to the access terminals of potential customers or end users. For example, if you have only one single wire room in China Unicom, due to the current domestic trans-operator network links brought about by the high latency, usually need to choose those who also provide the Unicom line of cloud service providers.

II. Service Monitoring

In addition to the performance of network resources, the server providing cloud computing services and the performance of various applications on it are also important factors that directly affect the quality of cloud services. Through the keynote network distributed in the backbone of the computer room monitoring nodes, the cloud service vendors on a regular basis of the server and various applications for performance detection, test response performance. Different service response performance monitoring is required for different cloud service applications. For example, the CDN service needs to focus on its first packet response time and buffer hit ratio, while for the cloud storage service, the data upload (save) and download (read) should be tested accordingly.

Iii. High Availability Monitoring

The availability of cloud services is also an important component of cloud service quality. Based on SLA terms with users, cloud service vendors often need to provide users with very high availability service systems. But can each cloud service provider truly meet its stated SLA standards? Can a transparent switch to failure reduce service downtime and provide real high availability? Users are hard to grasp. Due to the transient nature of the service failure, and closely related to the time period (for example: Service failures are more likely to occur during peak access times, accurate assessment of cloud service high-availability is done over a long period of time with very high test frequency, to cover all time periods, and to record long-term availability data for user reference. If service downtime is completely unacceptable to your business, it is important to look at the long-term usability metrics of the provider's cloud services when choosing a cloud service.

Iv. Resource Location Monitoring

In most cases, the geographic location and network location of the cloud services will have an impact on the performance and effectiveness of the cloud service, whether it is for companies that use cloud services or for end users of these enterprises. This is also the most of the cloud services, especially CDN services need to consider the problem, that is, the resource location and allocation of cloud services. A good allocation and positioning strategy will give users faster access to the resources and services they need. Once the allocation strategy goes wrong, it can lead to additional network latency, resulting in a decline in the quality of the entire service. Based on the detection of cloud service in different geographical locations, different operators and different access modes, it is possible to quickly understand whether the resource location strategy of each cloud service provider is correct and effective. For example, whether there are serious cross-carrier resource access, or Cross-domain resource access.

Real-time monitoring and optimization of cloud services

After the user has purchased the cloud service, especially at the same time to purchase a number of cloud service providers, but also need to use the cloud services for uninterrupted real-time monitoring to optimize the use of cloud services resources, reduce costs, improve input-output ratio. Keynote network deployed in the local data centers and end-user monitoring nodes, can be all kinds of cloud resources including servers, networks, storage, databases, applications for real-time detection. Provide regular online Izumo of cloud services to improve utilization of cloud resources, improve application performance, and user experience, in addition to optimizing reports and recommendations for the service. For example, by monitoring the discovery of CDN manufacturer A in a region of user access effect without vendor B, you can adjust the deployment strategy in a timely manner, so that users in the region to access the resources provided by Vendor B.

In addition to corporate cloud services, cloud-oriented services for individual users are becoming increasingly popular. In recent years, many sites have emerged in the country to provide personal cloud storage (network disk) services. For end users, when using cloud storage, they are more concerned with availability and download speed than their capacity. Just this June, we evaluated the 7 more popular Web services in China.

Domestic personal cloud storage (network disk) service evaluation

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